After receiving the gift from the Aeon of Remembrance, he was confident that even a genius with many tricks up his sleeve could be instantly controlled or even killed!
Some time later,
Ruan Mei returned, while Stelle looked at Jiang Lin with a touched expression… “I knew that with our friendship, you would never abandon me.”
Just as Stelle was about to rush over and give Jiang Lin a big hug… Jiang Lin directly placed one hand on her forehead… “Hold on, tell me the result first?”
Stelle stopped clowning around and then said seriously:
“I forgave her.”
“Oh? Why? What benefits did she promise you?”
Stelle shook her head: “She called me darling… hehe…”
Stelle looked smug, but Jiang Lin on the other side didn’t think so… “Just because of that?”
Stelle retorted directly:
“Isn’t that enough?”
Jiang Lin: … Jiang Lin put a hand to his forehead. He shouldn’t have impulsively saved her.
“If there’s nothing else, you should head back to the Astral Express. It might not be very peaceful here recently.”
Jiang Lin was a bit helpless.
But at this moment, Stelle spoke again:
“No, I promised Ruan Mei I’d help her deal with a big problem.”
Jiang Lin: ???
“What is it this time?” Jiang Lin asked helplessly… “Because she promised me benefits.”
Jiang Lin: … Jiang Lin sighed… but still spoke helplessly: “If you encounter danger, just call my name, I’ll hear you.”
…After all, this was his promise to the Astral Express Crew.
“Really? Then I can just mess around freely?”
“Hehe…” Jiang Lin raised his hand, and Stelle instantly ran off… Looking at Stelle’s retreating figure, Jiang Lin couldn’t help but let his lips curl up slightly. His companions on the Astral Express… though a bit troublesome, seemed pretty good?
Shaking his head, Jiang Lin’s thoughts returned to that Light Cone.
“Gaining power at the cost of one’s soul…”
What kind of price would it be?
Jiang Lin had some guesses… Although his soul had already been shattered once, yes, he did it voluntarily.
Because not long ago, he had devoured the crimson moon.
In order to isolate the powers of Abundance and the propagation, and prevent them from merging and causing unknown reactions,
he had shattered his complete soul again, so that two similar yet different powers would exist entirely on different fragments.
It hurt, but it was worth it… This was the answer his future self gave to his present self. He still knew how to copy answers.
Before, when he only had the powers of erudition and the propagation, a scepter’s algorithm isolated them.
Now, the role of this scepter had become to sustain his life… Hmm… but he could accommodate more Paths… And now he didn’t dare to experiment with his soul again casually, so the cost of using that Light Cone’s power… it would be best to test it in the Simulated Universe.
With his understanding of the soul, as long as he entered the Simulated Universe, with its environment, he was confident that he could convert all soul-related costs into data.
As for whether the Simulated Universe would suffer any irreversible damage?
That was none of his business. The price was clearly marked, and both parties had agreed.
And after devouring the crimson moon, that unparalleled regenerative power once made him wonder if this was truly just a product of the Abundance’s divine miracle?
The effect was a bit too heaven-defying.
After seeing Stelle leave, Jiang Lin didn’t wait in place either. He wandered around the Space Station, opening some Anchor Points along the way.
Just as he had activated the Anchor Point on the platform, his phone received a message.
“Herta: Where did you go? Never mind, it’s not important.”
“Herta: I’ve temporarily opened the Simulated Universe’s permissions for you. Go test it out and then leave your thoughts on the simulated Aeons inside.”
Seeing this, Jiang Lin didn’t hesitate at all. He turned and teleported to Herta’s office.
However, on the way to activate the Anchor Points, he noticed that the Space Station researchers seemed a bit uneasy?
Never mind, that wasn’t his concern.
Upon arriving at Herta’s office, Jiang Lin saw that large machine—the Simulated Universe.
He pondered for a moment, then used the permissions Herta had given him to upload his data to the Simulated Universe.
Afterward, under the guidance of the Herta puppet, Jiang Lin successfully entered the Simulated Universe.
He observed his surroundings. It was still the Space Station.
It felt incredibly real; it truly was the masterpiece of four geniuses… Then Jiang Lin didn’t waste any more time. At this moment, Jiang Lin’s aura surged, rising steadily… His eyes were tightly closed, as if he was sensing something… And just then, a longbow materialized in his hand… Almost simultaneously, in the Simulated Universe, Lan, the Aeon of the hunt, cast her gaze upon him.
But Jiang Lin’s power increase didn’t stop; he continued.
Intense pain enveloped him, but he still didn’t stop, until at a certain moment… he, in the Simulated Universe… died.
Just like him in the Light Cone… he turned into specks of starlight and dissipated.
And at the same instant, it wasn’t just Lan, the Aeon of the hunt… but also nanook, the Aeon of Destruction, Xipe, the Aeon of harmony, erudition, the Aeon of erudition, Fuli, the Aeon of Remembrance, and Aha, the Aeon of Elation!
They all looked here at the same time… But Jiang Lin had completely disappeared by then.
Moments later, the gods withdrew their gazes.
Back in reality,
Jiang Lin took a good while to recover from that state… Then he began to operate, and from an observer’s perspective, he re-watched his experience in the Simulated Universe.
After silently pondering for a moment, the corners of his mouth curved upwards… “If this is the price… I can bear it.”
Indeed, he had already reached a conclusion.
He could use the power of that Light Cone freely, as long as he didn’t raise his power to an Aeon-level.
At most, he would just suffer a bit, and pain was the one thing Jiang Lin feared the least.
From this perspective, Fuli, the Aeon of Remembrance, though her Light Cone was a blank slate,
just such a power was definitely the biggest cheat in the entire universe.
Then Jiang Lin looked at the Simulated Universe and deleted all data related to himself from it.
Just as Jiang Lin finished all of this, the Herta puppet next to him moved… Herta’s voice came from it: “What happened? What did you just do?”
Jiang Lin shook his head: “Nothing, I just did a simple test.”
“Huh? A simple test? Then why did my side just show that the Simulated Universe’s various data and algorithms reached an all-time high?
Although it’s not the Simulated Universe’s limit, something like this has never happened before.”
Suspicion was written all over the Herta puppet’s cute face.
Jiang Lin’s expression remained unchanged:
“Oh, that… I might have just attracted the attention of some Aeons.”
Herta: “Some?!”